Definition of swell

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Swell (n.) Increase or augmentation in bulk; protuberance.

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Outswell :: Outswell (v. t.) To exceed in swelling.
Dilate :: Dilate (v. i.) To grow wide; to expand; to swell or extend in all directions.
Olibanum :: Olibanum (n.) The fragrant gum resin of various species of Boswellia; Oriental frankincense.
Wave :: Wave (v. i.) An advancing ridge or swell on the surface of a liquid, as of the sea, resulting from the oscillatory motion of the particles composing it when disturbed by any force their position of rest; an undulation..
Botch :: Botch (n.) A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease.
Jug :: "Jug (n.) A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side..
Hone :: Hone (n.) A kind of swelling in the cheek.
Anasarca :: Anasarca (n.) Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin..
Inflate :: Inflate (v. t.) To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to expand; to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the lungs..
Turgesce :: Turgesce (v. i.) To become turgid; to swell or be inflated.
Swell :: Swell (n.) Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force..
Beal :: Beal (v. i.) To gather matter; to swell and come to a head, as a pimple..
Pulvinated :: Pulvinated (a.) Curved convexly or swelled; as, a pulvinated frieze..
Shagreen :: Shagreen (n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used f
Swoln :: Swollen (a.) Enlarged by swelling; immoderately increased; as, swollen eyes; swollen streams..
Apostemate :: Apostemate (v. i.) To form an abscess; to swell and fill with pus.
Embillow :: Embillow (v. i.) To swell or heave like a ///// of the sea.
Torose :: Torose (a.) Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences.
Dilate :: Dilate (v. t.) To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat..
Ancome :: Ancome (n.) A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow..
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